Civil War Test

US History Test Civil War

For the following questions decide which attribute is for the North or South.  North=a South=b

1. Agricultural Society
2. Industrial
3. Pro central government
4. Pro state’s rights
5. Pro Slavery
6. Anti-Slavery

7. The Missouri Compromise made the Maine a slave state?

1. True
2. False

8. This group of people wanted to get rid of slavery?

a.       Federalist

b.       Freeman

c.       Abolitionist

9. William Lloyd Garrison was a leader of the Abolition Movement?

a.       True

b.       False

10. This man was involved in the Supreme Court case that ruled African-Americans were property, not people?

a.       Martin Luther King

b.       Abe Lincoln

c.       Fredrick Douglas

d.       Dred Scott

11. What is the name of the town that John Brown and his men tried to take the South’s ammunition?

a.       Richmond

b.       Atlanta

c.       Harpers Ferry

12. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

a.       North Carolina

b.       Virginia

c.       Georgia

d.       South Carolina

13. What was the first battle of the Civil War?

a.       Bull Run

b.       Yorktown

c.       Fort Sumter

d.       Gettysburg

14. Who was given the nickname “Moses” because they helped African-Americans escape slavery?

a.       Abe Lincoln

b.       Harriet Tubman

c.       Harriet Beecher Stowe

d.       Uncle Tom

15. This Battle is known as the bloodiest DAY of the Civil War?

a.       Gettysburg

b.       Bull Run

c.       Antietam

16. What state were General Lee and General Jackson from?

a.       Kansas

b.       Georgia

c.       Virginia

17.  During the middle of the Civil War the North and South implemented conscription. Today we know this as what?

a.       Money

b.       A draft

c.       Training

18. This amendment forbids slavery?

a.       13^th

b.       1^st

c.       21^st

19. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

A.      Harriet Tubman

B.      Harriet Beecher Stowe

C.      Sojourn Truth

D.      Clara Barton

20. In what battle did Stonewall Jackson receive his nickname?

a.       Gettysburg

b.       Antietam

c.       Bull Run

21. This battle was the South’s first major victory and gave them a lot of encouragement?

a.       Bull Run

b.       Antietam

c.       Gettysburg

22. In the movie, what state was Colonel Chamberlain from? ( The Union officer with the mustache)

A.      Virginia

B.      Maine

C.      New York

23. Who Assassinated Abe Lincoln?

a.       Lee Harvey Oswald

b.       John Wilkes Booth

c.       William Lloyd Garrison

24. How did Abe Lincoln gain his popularity?

a.       Lincoln Douglas debates

b.       Being a Congressman

c.       Joining the Republican party

25. Where did the South Surrender to the North?

a.       Richmond

b.       Washington D.C.

c.       Appomattox Court House

d.       Gettysburg

26. Which president ordered Lewis and Clark to travel west to explore the nation’s new purchase?

1. James Madison
2. John Marbury
3. Thomas Jefferson

27. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and who?

1. France
2. Great Britain
3. Ukraine

28. Women got the right to vote soon after the Seneca Falls Convention?

1. True
2. False

29. Abolitionism was the idea of abolishing slavery in the confederate states?

1. True
2. False

30. The idea that the American people had the God given right to move west?

1. Ex Post Facto
2. Manifest Destiny
3. Freedom

31. Which of the following was a part of the Market Revolution?

1. Lowell Textile Mills
2. Texas Revolution
3. Trail of Tears

32. Reconstruction was the time period before the Civil War, when Abe Lincoln tried to bring the southern states back into the Union?

1. True
2. False

33. Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination?

1. Andrew Johnson
2. Mike Lee
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Fredrick Douglass

34. Radical Republican’s wanted to bring southern states back into the Union quickly?

1. True
2. False

35. Abolitionists who moved south the profit from reconstruction?

1. Carpetbaggers
2. Scalawags
3. Radical Republicans

36. Andrew Johnson was impeached because of his treatment of Reconstruction?

1. True
2. False

37.  At the beginning of Reconstruction African Americans prospered in the south by owning land participating in politics, forming churches and building schools?

1. True
2. False

38. Because reconstruction was unsuccessful many African Americans in the south turned to…?

1. Slavery
2. Manufacturing Jobs
3. Sharecropping

39. The end of Reconstruction resulted in the beginning of what era in the south? 

1. The New Era
2. The Jim Crow Era
3. The Prosperous Era

40.  From the movie Gods and General’s who won the Battles we watched?

1. Union
2. Confederacy

41. From the movie Gods and General’s most members of the confederacy we saw were from what state?

1. South Carolina
2. Georgia
3. Virginia

42. In Gods and Generals immigrants from what country end up meeting up and fighting. They are on the Confederacy and Union.

1. France
2. Great Britain
3. Ireland

43. What Union Colonel did we watch defend Little Round Top in the movie Gettysburg?

1. Colonel Powell
2. Colonel Stonewall Jackson
3. Colonel Chamberlain

44. Who won the Civil War?

1. Union
2. Confederacy

45.  Which of the following was NOT a part of the Union’s strategy to win the war?

a. Blockade rivers and shipping ports

b. Capture the capital, Richmond, VA.

c. Convince Confederate troops to join the Union.